barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible reform outcomes from the WTO's Doha Development Agenda. The results … liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …

WTO-based concern …

this scenario. Further investigations indicate that more ambitious world trade liberalization leads to greater poverty … world prices more than offset the adverse own liberalization effects in this scenario. If the Rest of the World (ROW) and …

The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and poverty …. (2) Free world trade has similar, but larger, impacts. (3) Domestic trade liberalization induces an expansion of … liberalization effects far outweigh those of free world trade when these scenarios are combined. (5) Remittances constitute a …

economies over 1989-2010; by 2010, these WTO member countries collectively accounted for 21 percent of world merchandise imports … and 22 percent of world GDP. The paper examines determinants of carefully constructed, bilateral measures of new import … responsiveness coinciding with WTO establishment in 1995 suggests a significant change relative to the pre-WTO period; i.e., new …

How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this … starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff … relatively more in the late 1940s and early 1950s for a core group of GATT participants (the United States, United Kingdom …

place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …

Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round …

. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …